I dont have much info mainly because my father married my mother who was german so his mother never liked my mom and we were never even able to call her grandmother so the info I have isnt much my father billy k farris born in springfield tenn -his father was bartho farris and he died I think when my dad was 8yrs old they only twins I know of was my mom had a set but lost them to a fall i do speak to one of my aunts but my grandmother married several times and bartho -my father was the only child she had with him-her maiden name was olean rigsby-whos parents where warren rigsby and mamie sommerville- I would apreciate any help -I'M IN Indiana close to Michigan if you need any help with those states would gladly help you-so sorry I,m not to much help-thank again for the reply-merry christmas and happy new yr-pia [email protected] wrote:This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farris, Burnett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeV.2ACEB/1729.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Pia - I don't have any information on Alabama Farris personally. Because of your post, I was looking her up in the Family Tree area of Ancestry and I got two hits. One was Alabama Farris born in 1912, obviously not the woman you're looking for, and the other was Mary Alabama Farris born in 1852. (She would've been too young to be the mother of a son born in 1860.) There was an Alabama Farris in Adairsville, Kentucky, in 1870: Database: Kentucky Census, 1810-90 Personal Information Name: ALABAMA FARRIS State: KY County: Logan County Township: Adairville District Year: 1870 Record Type: Federal Population Schedule Page: 276 Database: KY 1870 Federal Census Index Robertson County is on the Tennessee/Kentucky border, and Adairsville is straight up Hwy. 431 from Robertson County, Tennessee, just across the Kentucky state line, so it is possible that this is your Alabama Farris. However, there is no age listed in this information and I haven't checked the 1870 U.S. Census for Adairsville to locate her, so I can't confirm that she's the one you're looking for. This might be another place to look. If you don't have access to the U.S. Census, let me know and I'll look up the information for you. I live in a northern suburb of Atlanta, so I'm only about an hour from the sourthern Tennessee border at Chattanooga. I have done a lot of genealogy research for lines in the North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama areas, but mostly on-line. The Farris line I'm working on is my mother-in-law's and I've run up against a dead end looking for Thomas Farris, born 1826 in Morgan County, Missouri, whose parents were born in Tennessee. I have nothing else on his parents. Thomas' wife Martha was born in 1833 in Morgan County, Missouri, and I think she was Martha Tolbert, but I don't have any substantial evidence to prove that. I'm going by the fact that half of Matha and Thomas Farris' children had the same name as Martha Tolbert's siblings, which was a common thing to do in those days, and two of her grandsons had Tolbert as part of their given name. One was Tolbert Sebastian Farris, the other was William Tolbert McKinney. Can you tell me something? In this particular Farris line, twins are a very common occurrence. Do you know if twins run in your Farris line, also? Let me know if I can be of further help. ==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== Submit your "Most Wanted Farris" to me and I will place your query on the "FARRIS MOST WANTED" web site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wanda/FMW.html